Who are We when We're

Online?

How Self Works in a Digital Medium

Ourselves

Always Multiple

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelotuscarroll/6842167375/

Always Facets

The Infinite Selves of the

Blank Screen

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamison/3669034513/

...So I turned myself to face me

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thuanygabriela/4754591985/

The digital medium

amplifies & quantifies &

networks us like never before

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_wuestefeld/4535211481/

Why does this matter?

1. We have possibilities like never

before.

2. We are vulnerable like never

before.

The Digital = a Reputational

Space

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032

Digital Selves = Public

Aware of being

watched

Aware of scale of

attention

Builds identity by

repetition

Build ties by visible

communications

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/2755774089/

The Digital = a Social Space

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjnzja/2525350443

Digital Selves = Networked

We Connect

We Cultivate

We Curate

We Control?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/7153872159/

The Digital = an Economic

Space?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032/

Digital Selves = By the

Numbers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachubarama/4124709187

There are many currencies in

social media

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdemory/540976004/

Monetization is NOT the divide

What is?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oter/2692986119/

The kind of citizen we choose to be.

The Digital = Just us, Extended

Online, we are ourselves, wired together.http://www.flickr.com/photos/areyoumyrik/289116861/

Be the self you want to

encounter online.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimasmotion/2964792950

Thank you.

@bonstewart

http://theory.cribchronicles.com